List of people from Sheffield explained

This is a list of notable people who were born in or near, or have been residents of the English city of Sheffield.

Arts and humanities

Business

Entertainment

Politics

Religion

Science and engineering

Sport

Others

Notes and References

  1. News: Obituary: Sidney Oldall Addy . 18 November 1933 . . 7. 5 December 2008.
  2. Web site: Aslin, Charles Herbert (1893-1959), architect . Oxford Index . 2 September 2013.
  3. Bailey, Samuel . 3 . 217–218.
  4. News: Sir Sterndale Bennet . 2 February 1875 . The Times. 9.
  5. Web site: Netton . Ian Richard . Bosworth, (Clifford) Edmund(1928–2015) . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 31 March 2020 . 10 January 2019. 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111800 . 978-0-19-861412-8 .
  6. News: Author Sir Malcolm Bradbury dies . 30 August 2008 . . BBC . 28 November 2000 .
  7. Web site: Taylor . Philip . Edward Carpenter Biographical Note . 30 August 2008 . The Edward Carpenter Archive . Simon Dawson . https://web.archive.org/web/20170927080348/http://www.edwardcarpenter.net/ecbiog.htm . 27 September 2017 . dead .
  8. Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt . 5 . 847–848.
  9. Creswick, Thomas . 7 . 414.
  10. Web site: Margaret Drabble . 24 June 2007 . Contemporary Writers . British Council . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070408034314/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth31 . 8 April 2007 .
  11. Elliott, Ebenezer . 9 . 291–292.
  12. Book: Harman . R. . Minnis. J. . Pevsner City Guides: Sheffield . 2004 . Yale University Press . New Haven & London . 0-300-10585-1 . 24.
  13. News: King of soul music loses cancer fight . https://archive.today/20071209160018/http://www.thestar.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=874829 . dead . 9 December 2007 . . Sheffield Newspapers Ltd . 21 October 2004 . 24 June 2007.
  14. Book: Odom, William . Hallamshire worthies . Northend . Sheffield . 1926 . 23581396.
  15. Web site: CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire have unveiled a blue heritage plaque to commemorate the life of our charity’s founder, Ethel Haythornthwaite MBE.. 25 May 2022. . CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire. 6 February 2024.
  16. Web site: Blue plaque unveiled for Sheffield countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite as Star campaign a success. 25 May 2022. Kessen. David. The Star. 6 February 2024.
  17. Web site: University of Sheffield hosts blue plaque for Peak District campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite. 26 May 2022. Fletcher. Alice. University of Sheffield. 6 February 2024.
  18. ODNB entry by Dennis Butts: Retrieved 30 July 2012. Pay-walled.
  19. Wells, Hilary. 'Sheffield Artists 1840–1940'. Sheffield: Basement Gallery 1996, page 31.
  20. Web site: The Society . 24 June 2007 . The Hunter Archaeological Society . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060923224646/http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/hunter/society.html . 23 September 2006 .
  21. Encyclopedia: Arthur Lismer . . Historical Foundation of Canada .
  22. Web site: Steve McCaffery . 31 August 2008 . writing canada into the millennium . English Department, University of Calgary . https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175633/http://ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/s_mccaffery.htm . 8 August 2007 . dead .
  23. Montgomery, James . 18 . 783–784.
  24. Taylor. Michael A.. 2015. Mrs Alicia Moore, dedicatee of Henry Rowland Brown's 1859 guidebook Beauties of Lyme Regis. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society. 6. 9 March 2017. 12 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312065507/http://repository.nms.ac.uk/1492/1/1492_Mrs_Alicia_Moore_dedicatee_of_Henry_Rowland_Brown%E2%80%99s_1859_guidebook_Beauties_of_Lyme_Regis.pdf. dead.
  25. Web site: Charles Mozley - details . British Museum . The Collection . 23 May 2016.
  26. Encyclopedia: John Cresswell Parkin . . Historical Foundation of Canada .
  27. Web site: Alumni . 4 November 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100529034806/http://www.shef.ac.uk/alumni/known.html . 29 May 2010 .
  28. Web site: Joe Scarborough . The Joe Scarborough Gallery . Online Art Gallery - Sheffield, South Yorkshire & Derbyshire Artists . 30 August 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080610125713/http://www.art-show.co.uk/joe.html . 10 June 2008 . dead .
  29. Encyclopedia: Frederick Horsman Varley . . Historical Foundation of Canada .
  30. Brown, Sir John . 4 . 661.
  31. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26133262
  32. News: John . Fordham . Obituary: Derek Bailey . . 29 December 2005 . 31 August 2008 .
  33. Web site: Stainless Stephen . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718141918/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/605772 . dead . 18 July 2011 . 31 August 2008 . Film & TV Database . .
  34. Web site: Jarvis Cocker . 6 September 2016 . Music . What Makes Sheffield Special .
  35. Web site: Notable alumni Alumni Sheffield Hallam University . www.shu.ac.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060924110917/http://www.shu.ac.uk/alumni/notable_alumni.html . 24 September 2006.
  36. Book: Price, David . Sheffield Troublemakers . Phillimore & Co. Ltd . Chichester . 2008 . 978-1-86077-569-7.
  37. Balguy, John . 3 . 255–256.
  38. January 1958 . Outstanding Metallurgists: Henry Bessemer . Metallurgist . 2 . 1 . 48–51 . 10.1007/BF00734445 . 189770707 .
  39. Book: Day . Lance . McNeil . Ian . Curr, John . Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology . 1998 . Routledge . London . 321–322 . 0-415-06042-7 .
  40. Firth, Charles Harding . 10 . 425.
  41. Book: Mackay, Thomas . The Life of Sir John Fowler, Engineer, Bart., K.C.M.G., Etc . 1900 . John Murray . London . 1 .
  42. Book: Hans Krebs: Biography . Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962 . 1964 . Elsevier Publishing Company . Amsterdam . http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1953/krebs-bio.html .
  43. Book: Kroto, Harry . Harry Kroto: Autobiography . Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1996 . 1997 . Tore Frängsmyr . Nobel Foundation . Stockholm . http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/kroto-autobio.html .
  44. Roebuck, John . 23 . 450–451.
  45. News: Micky Adams confirmed as Sheffield United manager . 30 December 2010 . BBC Sport . 30 December 2010.
  46. Book: Reichler, Joseph L. . The Baseball Encyclopedia . 1969 . 4th . 1979 . Macmillan Publishing . New York . 0-02-578970-8 .
  47. 2369315 . William Barnsley Allen Obituary . 9 September 1933 . . 512 . 2 . 3792.
  48. News: The Sheffield poisoning case, the trial of Kate Dover, defence and verdict . British Newspaper Archive . Sheffield Independent . Sheffield . 8 February 1882 . 2 col1 . 13 July 2019.
  49. Book: Irving, Henry Brodribb . A Book of Remarkable Criminals . The Life of Charles Peace . 1918 . George H. Doran company . New York .